I don't want to have all the tabs showing at once.

[ryftjet]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
No. I want some customisation options for the position of the tabs.

Describe the solution you'd like

• The ability to change the order of the tabs
• The ability to change which tab opens on start
• The ability to hide tabs in a small menu
• The ability to hide tabs completely

Additional context
Noteflight has a good example of this. In the extremely rare case (😉) that you don't have an account, here is a screen recording:

Screen.Recording.2022-12-16.at.8.00.10.pm.mov

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[ryftjet]

I found this code online, which is a ListBox that you can drag the items around:

class DragDropListbox(tk.Listbox):
    """ A Tkinter listbox with drag'n'drop reordering of entries. """
    def __init__(self, master, **kw):
        kw['selectmode'] = tk.SINGLE
        tk.Listbox.__init__(self, master, kw)
        self.bind('<Button-1>', self.setCurrent)
        self.bind('<B1-Motion>', self.shiftSelection)
        self.curIndex = None

    def setCurrent(self, event):
        """Set the current selection"""
        self.curIndex = self.nearest(event.y)

    def shiftSelection(self, event):
        """Move the selection"""
        a = self.nearest(event.y)
        if a < self.curIndex:
            x = self.get(a)
            self.delete(a)
            self.insert(a + 1, x)
            self.curIndex = a
        elif a > self.curIndex:
            x = self.get(a)
            self.delete(a)
            self.insert(a - 1, x)
            self.curIndex = a

You can use the following code to get a <tuple> of the items (in the order they appear:

DragDropListBox().get(0, tk.END)

You can use any of the commands on it that you could on a regular ListBox, as it is a subclass of it. E.g:

import tkinter as tk
root = tk.Tk()
apps = DragDropListBox(root)
apps.pack()
[apps.insert(tk.END, x) for x in ["timetable", "notices", "events", "me"]]

I thought we could put one in the settings tab.

[ryftjet]

A tkinter.StringVar() and tkinter.OptionMenu object can be combined to complete task two. This should be put in the settings menu.

Example:

import tkinter as tk
root = tk.Tk()
start_tab = tk.StringVar(root)
start_tab.set("Timetable")
menu = tk.OptionMenu(root, start_tab, "Timetable", "Notices", "Events", "Me")
menu.pack()

def print_data():
    print(start_tab.get())
    root.after(1000, print_data)

print_data()
root.mainloop()

[ryftjet]

For tasks two and three, I think the best idea is to have a list of tabs, each with a dropdown with the options Show, Hide and Menu (except Settings, which will have Show and Menu).

See the below code for an example of how the menu option should work:

import tkinter as tk
root = tk.Tk()
current_tab = tk.StringVar(root)
current_tab.set("...")
menu = tk.OptionMenu(root, current_tab, "Timetable", "Notices", "Events", "Me", "Settings")
menu.pack()

def open_tab(*_):
    print(f"Opening {current_tab.get()}")
    current_tab.set("...")

current_tab.trace("w", open_tab)
root.mainloop()